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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. Dependency between two project schedule activities or between project schedule activity and schedule milestone.






2. Processes required to ensure that the project includes all the work required and only the work required to complete the project successfully






3. Inclusive term - describes the sum of knowledge within the profession of project management. includes proven traditional practices that are widely applied and innovative practices that are emerging.






4. A subsystem of the overall project management system. it is a collection of formal documented procedures used to apply technical and administrative direction and surveillance to identify and document the functional and physical characteristics of a p






5. Calendar of working days and non-working days that determines those dates on which each specific recourse is idle or can be active






6. Number of labor units required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component






7. Processes required to track - review and regulate the progress and performance of the project - identify any areas in which changes to the plan are required and initiate the corresponding changes.






8. Application of knowledge - skills - tools and techniques to project activities to meet the project requirements






9. Document describing how roles and responsibilities - reporting relationships and staffing management will be addressed and structured for the project






10. Those processes performed to finalize all activities across all project management process groups to formally close the project or phase






11. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements






12. Person or organization that is actively involved in the project or whose interests may be positively or negatively affected by execution or completion of the project






13. Float (total float - free float)






14. ACWP






15. Specific type of management activity that contributes to the execution of a process and that may employ one or more techniques and tools






16. An information gathering technique used as a way to reach a consensus of experts on a subject. experts on the subject participate in the technique anonymously. a facilitator uses a questionnaire to solicit ideas about the important project points rel






17. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively






18. Hybrid contractual arrangement containing aspects of both cost reimbursable and fixed price contracts. time and material contract have no definitive end - can grow. units are preset by the buyer and seller.






19. Someone with management authority over an organizational unit within a functional organization.






20. The value of work performed expressed in terms of the approved budget assigned to that work for a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component. ALSO BCWP.






21. System of practices - techniques - procedures and rules used by those who work in a discipline






22. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






23. Expected cost needed to complete all the remaining work for a schedule activity - work breakdown structure component or project.






24. Subdivision of a phase






25. The person assigned by the performing organization to achieve the project objectives






26. Processes that organize and manage the project team






27. Point in time that work was scheduled to finish on a schedule activity. called planned finish date






28. Those processes performed to complete the work defined in the project management plan to satisfy project objectives






29. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






30. Method of resolving the total variance in the set of scope - cost - and schedule variables into specific component variances that are associated with defined factors affecting scope - cost and schedule variables






31. Requests to expand or reduce the project scope - modify policies - processes - plans or procedures - modify costs or budgets - or revise schedules






32. Schematic display of the logical relationships among the project schedule activities. drawn from left to right.






33. Provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and or schedule risk. modifier: management reserve (unknown risks) - contingency reserve (known - but unplanned risks)






34. Narrative description of the project scope - including major deliverables - project assumptions - project constraints and a description of work that provides a documented basis for making future project decisions and for confirming or developing a co






35. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






36. Information and data on the status of the project schedule activities being performed to accomplish the project work collected as part of the direct and manage project execute processes. Information includes: status of deliverables - implementation s






37. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






38. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining






39. Budgeted cost of work performed






40. Document used to record and describe or denote selected items identified during execution of a process or activity






41. A short unique numeric or text identification assigned to each schedule activity to differentiate that project activity from other project activities. typically unique within any one project schedule network diagram






42. Reviewing all change requests - approving changes - and managing changes to the deliverables - organizational process assets - project documents and project management plan






43. Reserve






44. Analytical technique used to determine basic underlying reason that causes a variance or defect or risk






45. Structure in which the project manager shares responsibility with the functional managers for assigning priorities and directing the work of persons assigned to the project






46. Total number of work periods required to complete a schedule activity or work breakdown structure component.






47. Schedule activity that follows a predecessor activity as determined by their logical relationship






48. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






49. Deliverable oriented hierarchical decomposition of the work to be executed by the project team to accomplish the project objectives and create the required deliverables






50. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports